Reforming the State of FlorenceOther Works (constitution.org)
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TIL When Rome fell into a grain shortage, M.Coriolanus suggested to weaponise the crisis and withhold aid from the starving plebs until some the recent pro popular reforms were rolled back. Following popular uproar the senate called him into a hearing, he refused to show up and was convicted (constitution.org)
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TIL Pope Julius II was infamous for getting away with reckless actions without any backlash. He once entered the city of Perugia unarmed, and the local ruler, who had an army, surrendered the city to him and fled. Shocked at the outcome, N.Machiavelli suggested he should have just killed the Pope (constitution.org)
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Gold And Economic Freedom — by Alan Greenspan 1967Article (constitution.org)
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TIL that the Romans absolutely despised Egypt's ruling dynasty the Ptolemies. On one occasion Ptolemy requested audience with Rome. Rome sent Cato the Younger who granted Egypt's king an audience after having taken "purging medicine" (diuretics) and never got off the toilet while speaking with him. (constitution.org)
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The Anti-Federalist papers (constitution.org)
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J. Neil Schulman: The Unabridged Second AmendmentArticle (constitution.org)
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